FW 2.1a --HCE's name--

2.1a: Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Frees and Lili O'Rangans)...
2.1b: which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues...
2.1c: We are told how in the beginning it came to pass that, like cabbaging...
2.1d: Forgetful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch, Humphrey...
2.1e: On his majesty, who was, or often feigned to be, noticeably longsighted...
2.1f: Our sailor king, who was draining a gugglet of obvious adamale...
2.1g: turned towards two of his retinue of gallowglasses, Michael, etheling lord...
2.1h: (in either case a triptychal religious family symbolising puritas of doctrina...
2.1i: For he kinned Jom Pill with his court so gray and his haunts in his house...


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FDV: "Concerning the genesis of his agnomen" →
"Concerning the genesis of {Harold or} Humphrey Coxon's agnomen and discarding finally those theories" →
4DV: "Now, concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimpden's occupational agnomen and discarding once for all those theories from older sources"


synopsis: the origin of Earwicker's name, the result of a meeting with the king — Here Comes Everybody, with his imposing figure



Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Frees and Lili O'Rangans),

forbear = delay
fore = forehead?
bare = naked

forever

why no space? dolittle? belittle?

freeze?

Iris Tree by Modigliani

Iris Tree: English poet, actress and artists' model 1897-1968 [wiki]
fw1 has "Trees"

in the Aeniad, Juno sends Iris to free Dido

freesias

since both names end with 's' they may each be plural 'types'
the temptresses as a duo are mostly absent from ch1, so this forbearance is more forwardlooking than back

green/orange

song Orange Lily, O ♬
why Lili?

organs?


concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimpden's occupational agnomen

weird parallels emphasizing how the Guinness brewery was often called a 'concern':
fw99: "Elsewere there here no concern of the Guinnesses."
fw126: "for the concern of Messrs Jhon Jhamieson and Song"
fw309: "It may not or maybe a no concern of the Guinnesses but."

"Harold" is not widely reused
he's a hunchback?

Chimpden/chimp [fweet-8]
he's apelike?

occupational: he catches earwigs as part of his profession?

agnomen: an additional name or nickname, generally on account of some exploit


(we are back in the presurnames prodromarith period, of course,

presurnames period: a period in Irish history (before the 10thC) when men bore essentially one name, usually composed of two yoked elements (e.g. Conchobhar, 'high-will'), sometimes complemented by a patronymic ('Mac' plus genitive of father's name) or an agnomen

proDROMarith
like predominant

artificial Greek: pro-drom-arithmos: what comes before numbers (from Greek prodromos: forerunner; dromos: road; arithmos: number)

-ith is rare in English, -eth more common

pre-christian period of Irish history?
(what timeframe does "period" imply?)


just when enos chalked halltraps)

why "just"? only, exactly, coincidentally?

ech

Enos: son of Seth (Genesis 5:6), regarded by kabbalists as a greater magician than any before him (why no cap?)
Hebrew enosh: man
plural of eno?

U616 mentions the superstition that you can trap a rooster by drawing a chalk circle around it (cf earwigging??)

wrote graffiti in chalk
slang chalk: to slash, to scratch

traps in the hall, created with chalk, or marked as warning?

hilltops
trapdoors

cf? U411: "You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander"



and discarding once for all those theories from older sources

"once for all" as a phrase usually refers to Jesus [ngram]
once and for all
all for one and one for all


VI.B3.158: 'from older sources'
Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 29: 'an Irish historical tract, written about 721 A. D., and copied from older sources, gives the definite Gaelic monarchy as beginning contemporaneously with Alexander the Great in the fourthC B. C.'








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FW 2.1b --discarded theories--

2.1a: Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Frees and Lili O'Rangans)...
2.1b: which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues...
2.1c: We are told how in the beginning it came to pass that, like cabbaging...
2.1d: Forgetful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch, Humphrey...
2.1e: On his majesty, who was, or often feigned to be, noticeably longsighted...
2.1f: Our sailor king, who was draining a gugglet of obvious adamale...
2.1g: turned towards two of his retinue of gallowglasses, Michael, etheling lord...
2.1h: (in either case a triptychal religious family symbolising puritas of doctrina...
2.1i: For he kinned Jom Pill with his court so gray and his haunts in his house...


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FDV: "the most authentic version has it that" →
"which would link him either with the Glues & Gravys & Earwickers of Sidleham {in the hundred of manhood} or proclaim him a descendant of vikings who had settled in Herwick (?) or Erwick (?) the most authentic version has it that it was this way." →
4DV: "which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the Gravys, the Northeasts, the Ankers and the Earwickers of Sidlesham in the hundred of manhood or proclaim him a descendant of vikings who had founded or settled in Herrick or Eric the best authenticated version has it that it was this way."




which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors

link/pivot = mechanism motif?

"with" not 'to'?

VI.B3.92: 'pivotal ancestor'
Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 141: 'Cormac, the descendent of Lethain. He was of the line of Olliol Olum, King of Munster and pivotal ancestor of its nobility'


as the Glues, the Gravys, the Northeasts, the Ankers

A Pictorial & Descriptive Guide to Bognor &c. Chichester 54: 'Sidlesham Church is an Early English structure worthy of notice, and an examination of the surrounding tombstones should not be omitted if any interest is felt in deciphering curious names, striking examples being Earwicker, Glue, Gravy, Boniface, Anker, and Northeast' (Sidlesham is in the Hundred of Manhood, the extreme southwestern Hundred (county division) of Sussex; Joyce stayed in Bognor, a few miles from there, in summer 1923)

(cf sending old horse 'to glue factory'?)


and the Earwickers of Sidlesham in the Hundred of Manhood

German erwecken: to rouse, to raise from the dead

A Pictorial & Descriptive Guide to Bognor &c. Chichester 54: 'From Chichester to Selsey Hill runs a light railway called the Hundred of Manhood and Selsey Tramway'


or proclaim him offsprout of vikings who had founded wapentake

offspring
offshoot

Joyce doesn't normally capitalise 'viking'

'Wapentake' of some English counties corresponds to 'Hundred' of others


and seddled hem in Herrick or Eric,

settled
Siddlesham (misspelling of Sidlesham??)

archaic hem: them
Dutch hem: him

longshot: Herrick: the maiden name of Swift's mother (F. Elrington Ball: The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., vol. I, 37 (1910): 'the name is spelt variously Herrick and Erick') cf fw55 "that once grand old elrington bawl"

the old 'correct' pronunciation of the name Earwicker is 'Erricker'


the best authenticated version, the Dumlat,

Talmud (backwards: fweet-44): Hebrew commentary on the Pentateuch (Hebrew is written from right to left)


read the Reading of Hofed-ben-Edar, has it that it was this way.

Dutch hoofd: head

(a parody of a rabbi's name)

Hebrew ben: son of

Irish Binn Éadair: Howth Head

VI.B10.96: 'it's this way'






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FW 3.1a --the cloud of witnesses--

3.1a: Chest Cee! 'Sdense! Corpo di baraggio! You spoof of visibility in a freakfog...
3.1b: Yet all they who heard or redelivered are now with that family of bards...
3.1c: Hilton St Just (Mr Frank Smith), Ivanne Ste Austelle (Mr J. F. Jones), Coleman of Lucan...
3.1d: Of the persins sin this Eyrawyggla saga (which, thorough readable...
3.1e: If they whistled him before he had curtains up they are whistling him still...
3.1f: and soldiered a bit with Wolsey under the assumed name of Blanco...
3.1g: Poor old dear Paul Horan, to satisfy his literary as well as his criminal...
3.1h: Sordid Sam, a dour decent deblaneer, haunted always by his ham...
3.1i: Though the last straw glimt his baring this stage thunkhard is said...
3.1k: and of all of whose I in my hereinafter of course by recourse demission me...
3.1l: and soldiered a bit with Wolsey under the assumed name of Blanco...
3.1m: Disliker as he was to druriodrama, her wife Langley, the prophet...
3.1n: so entirely spoorlessly (the mother of the book with a dustwhisk...
3.1o: Again, if Father Dan Browne, tea and toaster to that quaintestest...
3.1p: and was an objectionable ass who very occasionally cockaded...


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FDV: "A cloud of witnesses indeed!"

synopsis: what became of the previously-mentioned characters — as time passes, they are all dead




Chest Cee! 'Sdense! Corpo di baraggio!

the previous chapter ended with the singing of the ballad, so here the singer is prolonging the final note?

Souvenir of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Opening of The Gaiety Theatre 31: 'who that has seen him can ever forget the operatic tenor of the old school... the gentleman who so strangely and wonderfully used to work himself up to the point of delivering his famous chest C'
c'est?

why CEE?

Stentor was a loud herald in Homer
it's dense (stupid?)
stench of corpse?

Italian corpo di Bacco!: body of Bacchus (by jove)
corpse, body

barrage: an excessive quantity (cf below "a poisoning volume of cloud barrage")
why only one R?
Caravaggio?
Baggio is a district of Milan [wiki] Joyce had occasional dealings in Milan
Coragio = courage! in Shakespeare?
sparagio = asparagus (Italian) makes urine stink


You spoof of visibility in a freakfog,

make fun of
speak
spoke?
spook??

sing???

visibility: HCE's exhibitionism?

freak fog


of mixed sex cases among goats, hill cat and plain mousey,

(mixed gender) [049.02] [050.06]

hellcat: ill-tempered woman; witch

mousy woman = plain, quiet


Bigamy Bob and his old Shanvocht!

is HCE ever accused of bigamy?
U445: "THE CRIER (Loudly.) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable..."

song The Shan Van Vocht
AngloIrish shan van vocht: poor old woman (poetic name for Ireland)

two wives, one old (one younger?)


The Blackfriars treacle plaster outrage be liddled!

Blackfriars Theatre was Shakespeare's before the Globe
Blackfriars Lane, London: site of Dominican monastery where Henry VIII was granted divorce from Catherine of Aragon

treacle = molasses; or a cure-all; or sentimental style

treacle plaster (1920s) a sticky piece of brown paper used by a thief to remove glass carefully
also a quack cure applied to top of head

belittled
be lidded (applied to top of head?)

longshot: Alice P. Liddell: friend of Lewis Carroll and model for Alice in Wonderland (liDELL not LIDDel)


Therewith was released in that kingsrick of Humidia

(with the reciting of the ballad)

obsolete kingric: kingdom (cf bishopric, reich)
rick = haystack

humid (smells travel farther)
Numidia


a poisoning volume of cloud barrage indeed!

poison gas
flatulence?

barrage: an excessive quantity
longshot: Arthur Barraclough: Dublin tenor

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FW 4.1a --HCE remembers his past--

4.1a: As the lion in our teargarten remembers the nenuphars of his Nile...
4.1b: that the besieged bedreamt him still and solely of those lililiths...
4.1c: It may be, we moest ons hasten selves te declareer it, that he reglimmed?...
4.1d: petrified within his patriarchal shamanah, broadsteyne 'bove citie...
4.1e: that his ouxtrador wordwounder, an engels to the teeth...
4.1f: unfold into the first of a distinguished dynasty of his posteriors...
4.1g: of a truly criminal stratum, Ham's cribcracking yeggs...


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synopsis: perhaps, his dreams while besieged — maybe, his prayers and hopes while in agony



As the lion in our teargarten

our: zoological gardens in Phoenix Park incl. lions

Lyons' tea rooms: English chain of restaurants, the only place where women could use public toilets

German Tiergarten: zoo
shedding tears
beargarden


remembers the nenuphars of his Nile

nenuphar: water lily (ultimately derived from Sanskrit nil: blue)
issies

his: imported African lion


(shall Ariuz forget Arioun

Arius: 4thC heretic who claimed Christ was created by God and in turn created the Holy Spirit, thus contradicting the belief in consubstantiation

Armenian: ariudz: lion

Arion: a legendary Greek poet, said to have invented the Dionysiac dithyramb, which according to Aristotle led to the creation of tragic drama (discussed in Vico with misremembered name)

Armenian: ariun: blood

lion nostalgic for taste of blood

heretic forgets artistic impulse???


or Boghas the baregams of the Marmarazalles from Marmeniere?)

bogha (Irish) = bow
Armenian: Bôghos: Paul (archetypal anti-feminine? usually paired with a Peter)
Bacchus: the Roman name for Dionysus (in some myths changed himself into a lion) [fweet-15]

Armenian: baregam: friend
slang gam: leg

Greek marmara: marbles
longshot: Armenian: marmnaser: carnal, sensual (from Armenian: marmin: flesh, body)

German alles: all (why?)

song Mademoiselle from Armentières (British soldiers' song) [wiki]

Armenia (why?)


it may be, tots wearsense

Dialect tot: a very small drinking vessel (or measure of drink)

Dutch tot weerziens: till we meet again, au revoir, goodbye

Latin tot... quot: as much... as

that?
why totS? infants?

phrase wear and tear (above)

wary sense?


full a naggin in twentyg

obsolete full: a drinking vessel, cup, goblet
colloquial full: drunk
fully

archaic naggin: noggin, a small drinking vessel (or measure of drink)

Dutch negen en twintig: twenty-nine (rainbow girls)

archaic tyg: a drinking vessel with two or more handles


have sigilposted what in our brievingbust,

sigil: seal, signet (i.e. on a letter); an occult sign with mysterious powers (of the same etymology as sigla and siglum)

Sihlpost: Zurich General Post Office
Dutch postzegel: postage stamp

Dutch wat: what, something
that

Dutch brievenbus: letterbox, pillar-box
grieving breast
bust





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FW 5.1 --riverprayer--

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FDV: [nothing]


synopsis: in the name of Anna — a prayer to ALP



In the name of Annah the Allmaziful,

Bismillah: 'In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate' (the opening words of almost all the suras of the Koran)

Annah... Everliving... Plurabilities (ALP)

Ana: ancient Irish goddess
Anna Perenna: an old Roman deity of the circle or "ring" of the year, as the name (per annum) clearly indicates
Turkish ana: mother (superf)

all-merciful
amazing
longshot: Arabic: almas: diamond
longshot: Almighty
maze
maize = corn

longshot: Turkish mazi: olden times; past tense

longshot: Greek mazi: together

the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities,

eternal
immortal
life vs death

freedom
choice
ambiguity
uncertainty


haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run,

halo = saint, rainbow

Lord's Prayer: 'Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven'

All Hallow's Eve (Halloween)

Eve (and Adam)
evening
eaves of roof

springtime

the time to sing of her is past?!

'In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.' Isaiah 26.1

rill: a small stream

fw3: "riverrun"


unhemmed as it is uneven!

unhymned
Danish hemme: to check, hamper
hjemme: (Danish) home = 'on earth'
unfinished
unwalled

uneven hem on skirt
unfair
un-eve-n




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FW 6.1-4 --a quiz show--

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FDV: "So? How do you no to now, lazy and gentleman? The answer is in the balk of the wodes, callhim forth. (Shaun Maclrevick, briefdragger, of the concern of Jhon Jhamiesen and Song, rated onehundred and thin per storehundred on this nightly quizquiquok of the twelve apostrophes set by Johnn {Jacky} MicEarweak. {He misunderstruck the aim of number three of them}" →
"So? Who do you no to nigh, lazy and gentleman? The echo is where in the back of the wodes, call himforth. (Shaun Maclrevick, briefdragger, for the concern of Jhon Jhamiesen and Song, rated onehundrick and thin per storehundred on this nightly quizquiquok of the twelve apostrophes set by Jocky {Jockit} MicEarweak. He misunderstruck an aim of number three of them and placed his {left} correct replies to four of them in their incorrect order {natural disorder}."


synopsis: introduction to the quiz — set by Shem, answered by Shaun



So?

continuing a line of debate: and so? so what?
is that so? how so? like so?


Who do you no tonigh, lazy and gentleman?

how do you do tonight
what do you know
say 'no' to

nigh

ladies and gentlemen
lazy-and-gentle man


The echo is where in the back of the wodes; callhim forth!

fdv: "The answer... balk"

no one answers except an echo
all answers are echoes? plagiarist?

Shaun = echo = answer(er)

here

backwoods: uncleared forest land
book of the world

wode = madness
Polish woda: water
roads

callhim forth → call himforth → callhim forth


(Shaun Mac Irewick, briefdragger, for the concern of Messrs Jhon Jhamieson and Song,

Shaun is the quiz answerer

briefdrager (Dutch), German Briefträger = postman
brief = short writing [fweet-36]

Penguin dots "Messrs."

John Jameson and Son, Dublin whiskey distillers
why jHon jHamIeson and sonG?


rated one hundrick and thin per storehundred

rated

hound
hayrick
thick??

thin (cf tilly?)

one hundred and ten percent

a score of one hundred and ten is perfect for final examinations in Italian universities, there being eleven examiners (at ten points each)

but if he got one hundred and ten on the twelve questions following at ten points each, that would mean he missed one

Russian sto: hundred
Danish stor: large, great

great hundred, long hundred: 120 (twelfty)


on this nightly quisquiquock of the twelve apostrophes,

quisqueque
quiz
Latin qui, quae, quod: who, which
Italian quisquilia: scraps, trifles

three cycles of four questions

Greek apos: quick
Greek apostrophes: aversions
apostrophe: a rhetorical figure of speech in which the speaker digresses in order to pointedly address a present or absent person or personified object

12 apostles


set by Jockit Mic Ereweak.

Shem (riddler)
jock
jacket

Mac Irewick/ Mic Ereweak


He misunderstruck an aim for am otto of number three of them

(so is this a prerecorded show???)

misunderstood an M for an L
misunderstood a name for a motto (in question #3)
the letter m looks like the number 3 sideways

A/O

question #3 was answered incorrectly

the M


and left his free natural ripostes to four of them

riposte: counter-stroke (fencing)

Mamalujo will answer question #4

Shaun will not reply to four questions: #4 by Mamalujo, #6 by Kate, #10 by Issy, #12 by Shem


in their own fine artful disorder.)

Fine Arts

"artful disorder" Gibbon?




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FW 7.1a --Shem's ancestry--

7.1a: Shem is as short for Shemus as Jem is joky for Jacob...
7.1b: but every honest to goodness man in the land of the space of today...


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FDV: "Shem is as short for Shemus as Jim is for Jacob. Originally of respectable connections his back life simply won't stand being written about" →
"Shem is as short for Shemus as Jim is jokey for Jacob. Afew {A few} are found still who say that Originally of respectable connections his back life simply won't stand being written about" →
FDV2: "Shem is as short for Shemus as Jim is joky for Jacob. A few are still found who say that originally he was of respectable connections ( - - - -  was among his cousins)" →
"Shem is as short for Shemus as Jim is joky for Jacob. A few toughnecks are still found scattered who say that originally very originally he was of respectable connections ( - - - - was among his cousins)"

synopsis: Shem's name — his origins





Shem is as short for Shemus

Shem, son of Noah

Shemus: man in Yeats' Countess Cathleen who sells his soul to devil

Irish change J into Sh, e.g. James to Seumas (pronunciation 'shaymus')

('shamus' for police detective goes back at least to 1920)


as Jem is joky for Jacob.

Dublin accent Jem: Jim

jocular
affectionate

Low Latin Jacobus: James


A few toughnecks are still getatable

US slang roughneck: a 'tough'

getatable: accessible [cites]


who pretend that aboriginally he was of respectable stemming

French prétendre: affirm

aboriginally: from earliest known times

stem: to originate


(he was an outlex between the lines of

lists three men: outlex between RB and HH, and an inlaw to BB was among his connections

illegitimate child

Latin lex: law (so, outlaw)

outlier

read between the lines


Ragonar Blaubarb and Horrild Hairwire,

Ragnar Lodbrok: Viking chief
dragon? wagon?

German blau: blue
German Blaubart: Bluebeard (pantomime about a wife-killer, based on a literary folktale by Perrault)
French barbe: beard

barbed wire

horrid
Harold

Harald Fair Hair: first king of Norway

phrase there's hair, like wire!: there's a girl with a lot of long and stiff hair! (supposed/ unattested catch-phrase of the early 20thC)


and an inlaw to Capt. the Hon. and Rev. Mr Bbyrdwood de Trop Bloggg

VI.B14.53: 'an in-law of'
why TO?

military, government, and religious honorifics

Penguin dots "Mr."

Sir George Birdwood: 19thC Anglo-Indian official, naturalist, and writer (Sva (1910), xxi: 'there must be wars, and in the earlier stages of the evolution of humanity from savagery to barbarism... there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels, against the Dragon and his angels')

Beardwood: friend of Joyce's father (59yo in 1901?)

French de trop: superfluous

fw1 has "Blogg"
Bloggs: mock English working-class name
blague = joke (French)


was among his most distant connections)

VI.B6.63: 'distant relations'

Book of Kells 41: 'the zoomorphic, or animal, forms introduced in the decoration of the Manuscript... distant relations, as it were, of the lion, the calf, and the eagle, of the Evangelical symbols'





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